Harness



(No Model.)

I. N. DARR.

HARNESS.

Patented May 11, 1897.

- UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

ISAAC N. DARE, OF NEW BERLIN, OHIO.

HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 582,181,.dated May 11, 1897.

Application filed June 2 9, 1 8 9 6.

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC N. DARR, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Berlin, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation showing my improved harness placed in proper position upon a horse. Fig. 2 is a View showing the thills of a vehicle and illustrating the position of the traces or draft-straps and the holdbackstraps. Fig. 3 is a view showing the bottom or lower portion of the girth and the front or forward sections or portions of the draftstraps attached thereto.

The present invention has relation to harness 5 and it consists in the different parts and combination of parts hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the bottom or lower portion of the girth, which is constructed in the ordinary manner, reference being had to properly attaching my improved parts thereto, and to which the back-band B or upper portion of the girth proper is connected, said back-band B being provided with the ordinary terret-rings a and the checkrein-hook b. l

The draft-straps or traces C are connected at their rear ends to the whiffletree or to the thills I), as desired, and extended substantially parallel with the thills or shafts to the loops 0, which loops are connected to the thills in any convenient and well-known manner. The front or forward portions of the draftstraps or traces are preferably inclined downward, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, and are held in their lowered positions by means of the loops d and the rings (1 or their equivalents, the loops 6?! being connected to the thills or shafts D. Through the rings cl are passed the holdback-straps E, which holdback-straps are held in parallel position to the thills or shafts by means of the wrapped straps F,said

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straps being wound or wrapped around the thills or shafts D, the holdback-straps being bound with the thills. The holdback-straps E extend forward and are connected to the front or forward ends of the thills D by means of the cups or sockets e or their equivalents.

To the part A of the girth proper are attached the straps f, which straps extend rearward and upward, as illustrated in the drawings, and are provided with the buckles g, which buckles are for the purpose of connecting the holdback-straps E. Said holdbackstraps extend forward and downward from'a point where they are passed through the rings d, thereby connecting the girth with the rings cl and the holdback-straps E. The straps f form continuations of the draft straps or traces C, by which arrangement the pull is upon the girth A during the time the vehicle is drawn or pulled forward. When the hold back-straps E are brought into use to check the forward movement of the vehicle, the pull is first upon the rings d, which has a tendency to elevate or draw the rings upward and shift the pull to the girth A by means of the resistance upon the rings d by means of the draft-straps O, by which arrangement the ultimate pull is upon the girth A, whether the vehicle is being drawn forward or held against forward movement while descending an incline or overcoming momentum.

The buckles g are for the purpose of adjusting the length of the straps E, located forward of the rings d, by which arrangement the desired amount of tension and adjustment is provided in reference to the length of the holdback-straps.

It will be understood that the upper and lower sections of the girth proper are to be connected in the ordinary manner by the use of suitable straps and buckles.

Having fully described myinventiomwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combinationof the draft-straps O,

located substantially parallel to the thills of the vehicle with their lower ends extended below the thills, the holdback-straps E, located substantially parallel to the thills with their rear ends extended below the thills forward and downward and connected to the straps said straps f, attached at their for- Ward ends to the girth A, substantially as and back-straps, and draft-straps or traces, said for the purpose specified. holdback and draft straps connected together 2. The combination of the girthA,provided at the rear of the girth, and arranged as de- 15 With straps extended rearward and upward, scribed, for the purpose set forth.

5 holdback-straps connected at their forward In testimony that I claim the above I have ends to the thills and their rear ends connected hereunto subscribed my name in the presence to the girth-straps, and the draft-straps 10- of two witnesses. oated substantially parallel to the thills with their forward ends extended downward and ISAAC DARE [0 connected at the rear of the holdbackstraps, Witnesses:

substantially as and for the purpose specified. J A. JEFFERS, 3. The combination of the girth A, the hold- F. W. BOND. 

